You guys ever witness the crossfade bug- it's even in V5

GmElliott wrote on 4/23/2004, 6:32 AM

Hopefully Sony will acknowledge this:

Simple to reproduce....
-overlap two clips creating a simple crossfade
-slow the clip on the right down via ctrl+drag
-notice the crossfade becomes deformed.

Now if I click on either of the clips and nudge them a frame or so the crossfade "snaps" back to a correct fade but I'm wondering if this bug can be addressed in V5.b

Comments

winrockpost wrote on 4/23/2004, 6:45 AM

Dont see it here. Deformed in what way ?

GmElliott wrote on 4/23/2004, 6:59 AM

The shape of the crossfade changes so it's not perfectly symetrical. Actually I didn't notice this but by "viewing" the crossfade but playing the transition back. I noticed the clip on the left would start to fade out a bit early before the track on the left fades in- making it look like it's lowering in opacity- thus introducing some black (like it started to fade out).

I've confirmed this bug with Edward ("jetdv") and he said he was going to report it to Sony. I'm posting just to make sure- and see if anyone else has seen it.

neb wrote on 4/23/2004, 7:17 AM

i have seen it, it seems to happen consistatnly.

ben

SonyIMC wrote on 4/23/2004, 7:17 AM

Thanks!

Added to our db.

-Ivan

GmElliott wrote on 4/23/2004, 7:23 AM

Thank YOU.

jwall wrote on 4/23/2004, 8:09 AM

Funny...I've always noticed it, but never thought it was a bug.

Jon

rmack350 wrote on 4/23/2004, 9:23 AM

Just to describe it another way, when you time-stretch the trailing clip it's part of the crossfade stretches too. The other part of the crossfade, that on the leading clip doesn't stretch though. So it appears that the first clip has faded out before the second clip has completely faded in. If you nudge the event then the transition gets fixed.

Also, the length of the transition changes. I'm not sure if that's good, bad, or just bad on principle. In some NLEs people set tranitions to specific lengths.

Rob Mack